As a result of a helicopter accident, the body of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has been discovered, according to authorities who verified this information to several sites.
It was on Monday, May 20, when Raisi, who was 63 years old, together with six other people, including Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, who was 60 years old, was found in a blazing wreckage. The latest information comes after an extensive search for the officials that lasted for many hours after their chopper went down in the northwest of Iran, as reported by the Associated Press and the BBC.
When President Raisi’s helicopter crashed on Sunday, May 19, in a hilly portion of the region, it was initially impossible to locate his whereabouts following the incident because of the strong fog that was there at the time.
An image captured by a drone and distributed by Turkish authorities on Monday morning shows a fire raging in a steep slope located 12 miles south of the border between Azerbaijan and Iran. According to the Associated Press, officials “suspected that the fire was the wreckage of a helicopter.”
According to The Independent, when the Red Crescent Society arrived at the accident scene, they discovered “no signs of life” and the helicopter had “completely burned.”
Among the other people who perished in the helicopter accident were the governor of the East Azerbaijan province in Iran, as well as three members of the crew, according to the Iranian news agency IRNA, which is sponsored by the Iranian government. There has been no investigation into what caused the collision as of yet.
According to a number of different publications, Mohammad Mokhber, who was Iran’s first vice president, would now serve as president until the next democratic election in the nation.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, has announced that the country would observe a period of mourning for a period of five days after the passing of the president.
Khamenei, who is 85 years old, expressed his condolences for President Raisi on X, which was formerly known as Twitter. He wrote, “This unfortunate incident occurred during a service attempt; The entire period of responsibility of this noble and selfless person, both during the short term of the presidency and before that, was completely spent in #non-stop_effort in serving the people, the country, and Islam.”
The term “fatigue” was foreign to Raisi. During this terrible event, the Iranian people suffered the loss of a servant who was both honest and important. For him, the goodwill and satisfaction of the people, which symbolizes the satisfaction of God, was preferred to everything else. As a result, his irritations from the ungratefulness and taunting of those who wished him ill-will did not prevent him from working day and night to better and improve matters.
As a result of his victory in the election held in 2021, Raisi was elected as the seventh President of Iran. As a result of his connections to the mass killings of political prisoners that occurred during the Iran-Iraq conflict in 1988, the United States has decided to penalize him.
His two girls and his wife, Jamileh Alamolhoda, are the only ones who will remember him.
